Dachine Rainer

Dachine Rainer (born Sylvia Newman; 13 January 1921 – 19 August 2000) was an American-born English writer, poet, and anarchist.

Life and career Rainer was born in New York and grew up in the Tribeca neighborhood. Her father was a tailor. She was young when the executions of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti had taken place, which had influenced her ideologies. Rainer had already become a pacifist and anarchist by the time she was a teenager. In 1938, she had begun writing poetry and prose and won a scholarship to study English literature at Hunter College. In 1944, her first published work, a review, was in the magazine Politics.

Legacy Rainer's papers from the years 1948-1971, largely consisting of her correspondence with the photographer Marion Morehouse and her partner E. E. Cummings, are held at the Lilly Library.

Selected works Outside Time (1948) Giornale de Venezia (Salzburg Studies in English Literature. Poetic Drama & Poetic Theory, 167), 1996 The Uncomfortable Inn (1960)